Wriothesley’s Roll of Grants
Reference code
SAL/17/01/55
Title
Wriothesley’s Roll of Grants
Date
?1940s-1950s
Level of description
File
Extent and format
1 binder
Scope and content
This complex volume differs from the rest of the set in a number of respects. The bookplate inside the front cover identifies it as part of HS London’s bequest to the Society of Antiquaries, 1959.
Loose at front:
1. ‘Sir Thomas Wriothesley’s Roll of Grants / Addenda & Corrigenda’. MS, London.
2. Note: ‘The following 70 items occur onty in Roll 25, and are without doubt an addition’: nos 436-506. Typescript carbon, 1½ spacing. A later version is bound at no.9 below.
Bound:
3. MS title page: ‘Sir Thomas Wriothesley’s Roll of Grants, / A Roll of Arms belonging to the / Society of Antiquaries, / temp. Hen. VIII, / communicated by / Mill Stephenson and / Ralph Griffin, FF.S.A. / (Archaeologia, Vol. LXIX, 1920. / Corrected, enlarged and annotated / by H. Stanford London, F.S.A., / Norfolk, Herald Extraordinary, 1954.’ HSL had compared the text in the Society of Antiquaries MS [now SAL MSS/0443] with versions A, Coll. Arms Roll 25 and B, SAL MSS/0664/6, roll 18.
4. unnumbered page tipped in: ‘The additions and annotations in this book, both typed and manuscript, were transcribed from a copy of the roll annotated by Mr. Stanford London in the course of the years 1947-554. / His collation of Wall’s Book of Arms (Soc. Ant. MS. 679) had only reached no.200 when this book was bound and the manuscript notes inserted by me.’ TS note, initialled and dated in MS by BRK Moilliet, 27 Nov 1954.
5. interleaved page, recto blank, verso marked ‘61A’ with MS notes by London.
6. pp [61]-106: text of Archaeologia piece, with interleaved sheets at each opening. Both text and interleavings heavily annotated by London.
7. pp 107-110: index from Archaeologia with interleaved sheets; annotations as before.
8. p 110B / 112: notes of grants omitted from this roll which are in Thomas Wall’s Book of Arms (SAL MSS/0679). MS, London.
9. pp 113-135: ‘The following 70 items occur only in Roll 25, and are without doubt an addition’, with MS note at top by London that he had misnumbered the items from 466 instead of 426. A more finished typescript than no.1 above, double-spaced.
10. pp 137-141: typescript notes of various grants, heavily amended in MS.
11. pp 142-149: MS notes of various grants.
Loose at front:
1. ‘Sir Thomas Wriothesley’s Roll of Grants / Addenda & Corrigenda’. MS, London.
2. Note: ‘The following 70 items occur onty in Roll 25, and are without doubt an addition’: nos 436-506. Typescript carbon, 1½ spacing. A later version is bound at no.9 below.
Bound:
3. MS title page: ‘Sir Thomas Wriothesley’s Roll of Grants, / A Roll of Arms belonging to the / Society of Antiquaries, / temp. Hen. VIII, / communicated by / Mill Stephenson and / Ralph Griffin, FF.S.A. / (Archaeologia, Vol. LXIX, 1920. / Corrected, enlarged and annotated / by H. Stanford London, F.S.A., / Norfolk, Herald Extraordinary, 1954.’ HSL had compared the text in the Society of Antiquaries MS [now SAL MSS/0443] with versions A, Coll. Arms Roll 25 and B, SAL MSS/0664/6, roll 18.
4. unnumbered page tipped in: ‘The additions and annotations in this book, both typed and manuscript, were transcribed from a copy of the roll annotated by Mr. Stanford London in the course of the years 1947-554. / His collation of Wall’s Book of Arms (Soc. Ant. MS. 679) had only reached no.200 when this book was bound and the manuscript notes inserted by me.’ TS note, initialled and dated in MS by BRK Moilliet, 27 Nov 1954.
5. interleaved page, recto blank, verso marked ‘61A’ with MS notes by London.
6. pp [61]-106: text of Archaeologia piece, with interleaved sheets at each opening. Both text and interleavings heavily annotated by London.
7. pp 107-110: index from Archaeologia with interleaved sheets; annotations as before.
8. p 110B / 112: notes of grants omitted from this roll which are in Thomas Wall’s Book of Arms (SAL MSS/0679). MS, London.
9. pp 113-135: ‘The following 70 items occur only in Roll 25, and are without doubt an addition’, with MS note at top by London that he had misnumbered the items from 466 instead of 426. A more finished typescript than no.1 above, double-spaced.
10. pp 137-141: typescript notes of various grants, heavily amended in MS.
11. pp 142-149: MS notes of various grants.
Creator
London, Hugh Stanford (1884-1959), diplomat, herald and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
CLC 48